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J. MUNGIVBN.

GATE FOR PAINT GANS, 5w.

'Patented July 21, 1891.

ins co., muro-inno., wnsnmn NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. MUNGIVEMQF EROOKLYMASSIGNOE To lSILAS A. iLsLEv, oE NEW YoEK, N. Y.

vGATE FOR PAINT-CANS, sto;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO.' 456,290, dated July 21, 1891,

Application'iled March 1l, 1891l l Serial No. 384,538. (N o model.) l

To all whom it may con/cern,.-

Be it known that I, JAMES M. MUNGIVEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State -of New York, have invented an Improvement in Gates for Paint-Cans, the., of which the following is a specification.

In paint-cans an opening has been provided at orv near one end covered with a thin piece of sheet metal that is easily cut through by the point of a knife, and various devices have been employed forclosing this opening. In someinstances cast-metal valveseats and valves have been employed with a swinging lever similar to molasses-gates.

My present invention relates to a cheap and eiiicient device 4for closing the opening in a can for paint or Similar material, whereby the solid substance of the paint willnot The can A is to be of any desired size orl shape, and a hole is provided in this can at` 2, and either over or Linder this hole a thin piece of sheet metalis permanently attached, as shown at 3. This piece of Sheetmetal 3 can be easily cut through with the pointof a knife whenever the can is to be opened. The valveseat 4 is made in a piece of thick sheet metal,

B, forming a base-plate,the vvalve-seat being a conical rib struck up around the openingA through the base-plate, and there is a pivot projection 5 struck up in the sheet metal, through which passes the pivot-pin 6, by which the valve-lever() is attached. This valvelever C is free to swing upon the pivot-pin 6, and it carries, the valve D, which valve is made with a flat face and a recessed center struck up from a disk of sheet metal, and there is a valve-pin 7 passing through the valve and permanently fastened thereto, usually by spreading the metal of the pin against the upper surface of the sheet metal of the valve, as shown sectionally in Fig. 2, and this pin? passes loosely through the hole Vin the lever (1,'so that the valve may turn upon its pin; but the head of the pin is upset suficiently to prevent the valve separating from the lever. There is a teat at S-struck up in a position for the lever to ride over the same as it is swung toward the stop 9, thereby raising this part ofthe lever and causing the valve topress upon its seat. It will now be apparent that the conical shape of the valve- Seat 4 forms a scraping edge to keep the surface of the valve D free from solid matter,

Aand that the valveis free to rotate upon its pin and the lever presses upon the valve at the pin, whereby the valve is` free to accommodate itself lto the seat to close the opening tightly when the lever and valve are swung over the seat, andthe parts. are easily made and inexpensive and the valve and its baseplate are complete in themselves, ready to be applied upon a paint or other can, to do which it is only necessary to properly place the baseplate upon the can and Solder the same all around the edges of the said base-plate, and` ,n 'n

the valve can be opened or closed with facility and without the risk of being obstructed or rendered inefficient by the solid material of the paint.

- I claim as myv invention-W l. The combination, with the base-plate of Sheet metal having an opening and pressed up to form a conical valve-seat, of a valve-lever pivoted upon the base-plate, and a valve formed of a sheet-metal disk recessed in the center and provid ed'with a valve-pin fastened to the valve and loosely attached to the lever, substantially as set forth.

2.' The sheet-metal valve recessed in the center and the valve-pin attached thereto, in combination with `the lever through which the valve-pin passes, thebase-plate of sheet metal having an opening and a raised valveseat, a raised projection for the lever-pivot, a

teat beneath the lever, and a stop for these-me,

substantially as set forth. y

Signed by me this 6th day of March, 1891.

JAMES M. MUN GIVEN. Witnesses:

GEO. T. PICKNEY, WILLIAM G. Morir. 

